Connor Lade excited for second Red Bulls season in home state

7:14 PM,
Feb. 26, 2013

Connor Lade, a Morristown native, holds up a team jersey at Red Bull Arena in Harrison in 2011.

Written by

Jane Havsy | Staff Writer

At just 5-foot-6, Connor Lade has been a long shot on just about every soccer team since childhood in the Garden State. He's also heard a lifetime of height-related jokes - not all of them funny.

But Lade has always persevered, from Morristown to St. John's University and Red Bull New York - and even the United States national team. Lade is determined to keep the starting spot at left back he unexpectedly earned in a rookie year full of surprises.

The Red Bulls begin the season on Sunday in Portland, with the home opener in Harrison against archrival D.C. United on March 16. ...

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